Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to S H Getsinger.
In an inpatient population of alcoholics and drug misusers, MMPI subtype membership was modestly associated with baseline sociodemographic variables but not with initial substance misuse or treatment outcome.
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Hypotheses were tested regarding relationships between impulsivity as a personality construct and various biographical characteristics among neuropsychiatric patients referred for rehabilitation. Seventy-five males and five females (mean age 33) with mixed diagnoses served as Ss. Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment. Ego-delaying patients were significantly younger, diminished the importance of their past temporal mode relative to the present and future, perceived the future as a dominant temporal mode relative to the present and past, and achieved significantly better long-term adjustment following psychiatric hospitalization.
Two hypotheses derived from ego analytic vocational theory were tested using neuropsychiatric patients referred for vocational rehabilitation procedures. Subjects who obtained higher ego-delay scores derived from a time estimation technique were found to obtain higher vocational aptitude scores and higher levels of vocational readjustment following disability. Issues for counseling and further research are discussed.
Male sociopaths (n = 15), and self-actualizers (n = 15) ages 18-30, were compared on 18 measures of temporal behavior obtained from estimation, projective, and questionnaire techniques. Subjects differed significantly on half of these measures including time accuracy, delay, dominance, relatedness, and evaluation of the various time modes. Results are discussed in terms of theoretical notions of time, positive levels of coping, and therapeutic modifications of time-linked behavior.
The relationships between the tendency of subjects to perceive temporal zones as interrelated or discrete and other temporal behaviors and personality factors were explored in two studies, one using 115 college students and the other 60 college students, employing the Personal Orientation Inventory, the Temporal Orientation Inventory, and the Circles Test. Subjects who obtained higher time-relatedness scores were found to demonstrate greater self-actualization, evaluate the present time mode more positively, over-estimate time intervals in an estimation task, and to perform less accurately in time estimation than low time relaters.
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